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He marched just as far forward in the column as he was sure it could command the ground.
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This quote illustrates Hoar's view on a friend's cautious yet forward-thinking approach to progress.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
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